Umhausen
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| Country | Austria | |
| State | Tyrol | |
| District | Imst | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Mag. Jakob Wolf | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 137.4 km2 (53.1 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 1,031 m (3,383 ft) | |
| Population (1 January 2014)[1] | ||
| • Total | 3,099 | |
| • Density | 23/km2 (58/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 6441 | |
| Area code | 05255 | |
| Vehicle registration | IM | |
| Website | http://www.umhausen.com | |
Umhausen is a municipality in the Imst district and is located 17 km southeast of Imst at the Ötztaler Ache in the Ötztal. It has 2913 inhabitants.[citation needed]
Geography
The municipality consists of six villages:[citation needed]
- Umhausen
- Tumpen
- Köfels
- Farst
- Niederthai
- Östen
Economy
Umhausen was once[when?] a centre for cultivation of flax.[citation needed]
Today the main source of income is tourism. In the area of the community lies the tallest waterfall of Tyrol at 150 metres of height.[citation needed]
Landslide
The Köfels landslide was a gigantic landslide, known as a sturzstrom, that occurred in the Ötz valley approximately 9800±100 years ago according to radiocarbon dating of trees buried by the event.[2] It involved a 2.5 km horizontal displacement and 800 m vertical displacement of 3.2 km3 of rock and mud along the Ötz valley floor, making it the third largest known sturzstrom.[3][4]
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1869 | 1,341 | — |
| 1880 | 1,366 | +1.9% |
| 1890 | 1,186 | −13.2% |
| 1900 | 1,175 | −0.9% |
| 1910 | 1,318 | +12.2% |
| 1923 | 1,368 | +3.8% |
| 1934 | 1,485 | +8.6% |
| 1939 | 1,528 | +2.9% |
| 1951 | 1,724 | +12.8% |
| 1961 | 1,834 | +6.4% |
| 1971 | 2,050 | +11.8% |
| 1981 | 2,298 | +12.1% |
| 1991 | 2,506 | +9.1% |
| 2001 | 2,830 | +12.9% |
| 2011 | 3,078 | +8.8% |
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- Information on Umhausen (German)
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- ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2014-01-01.
- ↑ Ivy-Ochs S, Heuberger H, Kubik PW, Kerschner H, Bonani G, Frank M, and Schlüchter C. (1998). The age of the Köfels event — relative, 14C, and cosmogenic isotope dating of an early Holocene landslide in the central Alps (Tyrol, Austria). Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, (34):57–70.
- ↑ Sørensena, SA and Bauer, B (15 August 2003). On the dynamics of the Köfels sturzstrom. Geomorphology, 54(1–2):11–19.
- ↑ Prager C, Zangerl C, Patzelt G, and Brandner R (2008). Age distribution of fossil landslides in the Tyrol (Austria) and its surrounding areas. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 8:377–407.
